Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".